On the practitioners’ understanding of coupling smells — A grey literature based Grounded-Theory study

Patterns on Deriving APIs and their Endpoints from Domain Models

“…Figure 1 illustrates our research process and methods. The main knowledge sources used in this work have been gathered in two of our prior works [28,29]. In the first of those, we studied 32 practitioner sources from the grey literature in depth [29] using the Grounded Theory (GT) research method [5,13], a systematic research method for discovery of theory from data.…”

“…Using the same research methods, we also studied coupling smells based on 48 practitioner sources [28]. This study revealed many relations of coupling smells and principle violations to DDD models, and vice versa.…”

“…This work is based on two of our prior studies. Firstly, we studied how practitioners understand coupling smells [28] and generated a Grounded Theory (GT) [5,13] explaining those coupling smells and their relations. In this study we found a number of evidences which indicated a link between coupling smells and related software engineering principles to DDD.…”

“…Thus, the question arises how to derive APIs from DDD models. In our prior works, we investigated the interrelation of microservice API design and DDD [29], and DDD violations in the context of coupling smells [28]. Those smells and violations are especially problematic when used in distributed setting.…”

Introduction to the Special Issue on: Grey Literature and Multivocal Literature Reviews (MLRs) in software engineering

“…We also provide a simple classification of those seven papers in Table 1 (column "Type of paper"). Four papers [18][19][20][21] are Grey Literature Reviews (GLR), one is a MLR [22], one is a tertiary study [23] (a study of secondary studies such as SLRs, MLRs and GLRs), and one paper [24] is an experience report about performing a GLR. Thus, there is a good "diversity" in type of the paper.…”